How to Raise a Child With a Type A Personality

Raising a child with a type A personality requires research about the signs and characteristics. For example, type A personalities tend to equate their worth with the amount of success they achieve. Therefore, they tend to focus on academic or athletic abilities to help themselves standout. As a parent, you must understand how to help your child feel happy about who he is and organize activities that build his creativity without time constraints.

Things You'll Need

  • Psychology publications

Instructions

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      Read material that focuses on the type A personality in children. Child psychology magazines, books and online materials are resources to consider. Learn as much as you can about the tendencies and weaknesses that type A children encounter, such as self esteem issues. Also, find out the struggles faced by type A adults to help prevent those characteristics.

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      Provide unconditional love that is less focused on perfection. Award your type A personality child with praise and recognition for every good deed completed whether she does it perfectly or not. Spend quality time together as much as possible.

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      Decrease emphasis on money within your household. Don't allow money to be the center of how you live and establish all the decisions you make. Type A personality children tend to equate their worth with how much money they have when they become adults. Place more value on being an honest, hard-working individual, rather than rich. Encourage volunteerism to help foster this growth.

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      Create a schedule-free day that allows time to be spent without any deadline consequences. According to Dr. Sharma's Mind Publications, it is difficult for this personality type to relax, so it is imperative that you teach your child about ways to relieve tension. Attempt to have at least one flexible day per week. Have a day that is reserved to relax and have nothing planned at all. Be spontaneous.Do something fun. This helps the child to learn that life is more than working to follow a schedule.

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